Ideas on law, code, and where they overlap, which occur to us while we build Treescribe.com (previously Codepact.com).

Facebook's algorithms analyse every action by every user as a signal, cross-reference it against the actions of millions of other users, and feed everything back into the system. They literally know more about you than you know about yourself. »

To be sure, twitter has 'democratised' our public conversation, giving millions of people a voice. The problem is, the format encourages miscommunication and inflexible antagonism. Almost every issue worth talking about has nuance to it, but twitter doesn't leave enough room for nuance. »

To make the best of a career in commercial law, lawyers need to get creative about costs. Cheaper ways of building new legal arrangements will lead to new business structures and better incentive engineering. »